Good Deal.. from BB.
 

Just picked up a 160gb WD Cavier HD for 99 $, + - another 50 $ with the gift certificates I had, so about 50 bucks in total for a 160gb HD. Just got it in and working now, enjoying it very much over my 40gb 5400 2mb cache WD drive which I have been using for a long time.

Prolly some mail in rebate shit

well...im gettin new bball shoes from footlocker with the giftcard i got...yeah...so...ummm...yeah.

36 doller mail in rebate, 44 doller instant rebate, going to take around 2 months for the rebate to get back to me.

+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?

Yeah, that's normal.

I lost 9GB on my Seagate 120gb.

[quote="Short Hand":423de]+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?[/quote:423de]

It's all about the marketing see? The hard drive manufacturers count megabytes one way and windows counts it another. If it was a retail drive there's usually a disclaimer somewhere about this. Semi related, few years ago watched an old guy break out a ruller at Best Buy when he was looking to buy a 17" montor (CRT), was demanding to know why his 17" monitor wasn't 17 inches.

[quote="Mr_Gl@ss":b1836][quote="Short Hand":b1836]+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?[/quote:b1836]

It's all about the marketing see? The hard drive manufacturers count megabytes one way and windows counts it another.[/quote:b1836]
Ya... It's all the fault of a byte. A byte is actually 8 bits but manufacutes round up to 10 for sake of ease. The larger the drive, the larger the size error.

my 160 also reads 149

same my 120 shows up at 111 it kinda pisses me off

Re: Good Deal.. from BB.
 

[quote="Short Hand":f50d7]Just picked up a 160gb WD Cavier HD for 99 $[/quote:f50d7]you could have gotten a 300 gig HD for the same price at tigerdirect

Re: Good Deal.. from BB.
 

[quote=M79]you could have gotten a 300 gig HD for the same price at tigerdirect[/quote:397f5]
link?

Re: Good Deal.. from BB.
 

[quote=M79]you could have gotten a 300 gig HD for the same price at tigerdirect[/quote:d46e5]

Ya right... a 250gb @ newegg = 200 American.

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[quote=Akuma]link?[/quote:935e3] Yea I'm wanting a link also. I did a little searching and [url=http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1197385:935e3]this[/url:935e3]is the closest I could find.

guess ur 2 late...i saw a 300gig HD at TD last week in the HD's section. they must have stopped that sale.